Iberian Jewish Literature. Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe

Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press., 2007. 320 pp. As new. Hardcover with dustjacket. Sephardic Jewish history. Judaism. Judaica. Spain. Middle Ages. This book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives. ISBN: 9780253349132

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Boeknummer: 51722

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ABRAHAM BAR CHIYYA (HIYYA)

Sefer Hegyon ha-Nefesh. [German title:] Sefer Hegjon ha-Nefesch oder Sitten-Buch. Dabei eine Abhandlung über das Buch und den Verfasser von S.J.L. Rapoport. Herausgegeben aus einer sehr alten Handschrift der Leipziger Raths-Bibliothek nebst einer ausführlichen Biographie des Verfassers von E. Freimann.

Leipzig, Druck von C.W. Vollrath, 1860. LXIII pp. and 43 lvs. 18 cm. Slight brown age-staining. Contemp. boards, damaged, partly detached. First edition. Zeitlin p. 92; Vinograd, Leipzig 176. HEBREW language.

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Boeknummer: 26943

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ABRAHAM BEN HANANIAH YAGEL (1553- c.1624)

A valley of vision. The heavenly journey of Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel. Transl. from the Hebrew, with an introduction and commentary by David B. Ruderman.

Philadelphia, Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 1990. XII, 365 pp. Very good copy in good dustj. Oigr. cloth, with (dam.) dustjacket. Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel 1553-c.1624) composed his Hebrew work Gei Hizzayon (A Valley of Vision) in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. This striking text, so different from the other writings of the prolific physician, natural philosopher, and kabbalist, is first an autobiographical account of the vicissitudes of the author's years as a Jewish loan banker. It is also a description of a heavenly journey he is taken on by the soul of his recently deceased father, who visits his son while he is imprisoned in Mantua for debt. Finally, it is a series of theological and moral discussions based on the insights of Judaism, particularly the kabbalah as understood by Yagel and his Italian contemporaries. ISBN: 9780812281682

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Boeknummer: 14543

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ABRAHAMS, ISRAEL

Jewish life in the Middle Ages.

New York, Atheneum, 1958. XXVI, 452 pp. Slight stain on fore-edge. Else good. Paperback.

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Boeknummer: 11433

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ABULAFIA, ANNA SAPIR

Christian Jewish relations 100-1300. Jews in the service of medieval christendom. (The Medieval World)

Harlow, Longman, 2011. 262 pp. Upper-edge slightly bumped, else as new. Paperback. Jewish History, Middle Ages, The history of relations between Jews and Christians has been a long, complex and often unsettled one; yet histories of medieval Christendom have traditionally paid only passing attention to the role played by Jews in a predominantly Christian society. This book provides an original survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations encompassing England, Spain, France and Germany, and sheds light in the process on the major developments in medieval history between 1000 and 1300. Anna Sapir Abulafia's balanced yet humane account offers a new perspective on Christian-Jewish relations by analysing the theological, socio-economic and political services Jews were required to render to medieval Christendom. The nature of Jewish service varied greatly as Christian rulers struggled to reconcile the desire to profit from the presence of Jewish men and women in their lands with conflicting theological notions about Judaism. Jews meanwhile had to deal with the many competing authorities and interests in the localities in which they lived; their continued presence hinged on a fine balance between theology and pragmatism. The book examines the impact of the Crusades on Christian-Jewish relations and analyses how anti-Jewish libels were used to define relations. Making adept use of both Latin and Hebrew sources, Abulafia draws on liturgical and exegetical material, and narrative, polemical and legal sources, to give a vivid and accurate sense of how Christians in ISBN: 9780582822962

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Boeknummer: 50877

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ASMUSSEN, JES P.

Studies in judeo-persian literature. With 25 illustrations (Studia Post-Biblica, 24). ISBN 9789004038271

Leiden, Brill, 1973. VIII,135 pp. and plates. Fine copy. Orig. cloth. Orientalia - Judaica - Middle Ages - Persia - Judaism ISBN: 9789004038271

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Boeknummer: 17748

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BACHYA IBN PAQUDA

Sefer Torat Chovot ha-Levavot. The duties of the heart. Translated from the Arabic into Hebrew by R. Yehuda Ibn Tibbon. With English translation by Moses Hyamson. Complete set, 2 volumes. (Torah Classics Library)

Jerusalem, Feldheim, 1978. 382, 416 pp. ex libris of former owner inside covers; good set. Paperbacks. Hebrew and English. Standard Hebrew text (prepared by R. Judah ibn Tibbon in the 12th century) is printed in entirety with English translation on facing pages. Sephardic history. Jewish Spain ISBN: 9780873061636

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Boeknummer: 16745

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Bakos, Jan

Psychologie de Grégoire Aboulfaradj dit Barhebraeus d'apres la huitième base de L'ouvrage. Le Candélabre des Sanctuaires. Éditée et traduite en Français.

Leiden, E.J.Brill, 1948. XL, 131, 148 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover. Syriac text with French translation. Preface and notes in French.

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Boeknummer: 52711

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BAROL, M.

Menachem Ben Simon aus posquieres und sein Kommentar zu Jeremia und Ezechiel

Berlin, 1907. 58 pp. Unopened. Internally very good. Orig. wraps., slightly discolored, spine slightly damaged. Offprint from Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, vol. 51. German language. Bible. Old Testament. Middle Ages, Judaica, Judaism.

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Boeknummer: 50505

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BEIT-ARIÉ, MALACHI

Hebrew codicology. Tentative typology of technical practices employed in Hebrew dated medieval manuscripts.

Jerusalem, 1981. 114 pp., illustrated. slight folding fore-edge. Else good. Orig. wraps, traces of wear.

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Boeknummer: 24374

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BEKKUM, W. JAC. VAN

A hebrew Alexander romance according to Ms Héb.671.5, Paris, Bibl.Nationale. (Text & translation).

Groningen, Styx publications, 1994. 183 pp. With author's dedication. Very good condition. Hardcover.

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Boeknummer: 48527

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BEKKUM, W.J. VAN, COBB, P.M., (Eds.)

Strategies of medieval communal identity: judaism, christianity and islam. (Mediaevalia Groningana, n.s. 5). ISBN 9789042914926

Leuven, Peeters, 2004. (X) 186 pp. Uppercorner slightly bumped. Good copy. Paperback, minor traces of use. With Contributions by a.o. J.B. Henderson, J.A. Nawas, B. Roest and Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez.

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Boeknummer: 47508

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BEN-SHALOM, RAM

Mul tarbut Notsrit : todaah historit ve-dimuye avar bi-kerav Yehude Sefarad ve-Provens bi-Yeme ha-Benayim (Facing Christian Culture). ISBN 9789652351135

Jerusalem, Ben ZVi Inst. 10, 481, viii, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm. Internally as new. Hardcover, bumped upper corner. HEBREW language. Historical consciousness and images of the past among the Jews of Spain and Southern France during the Middle Ages.

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Boeknummer: 48900

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BERECHIA BEN NATRONAI HA-NAKDAN - W.A. WRIGHT (ed.)

A commentary on the book of Job by Berechiah, mediaeval Jewish scholar in France. Hebrew text, edited from a 13th or 14th century MS in the Univ. Library Cambridge with critical notes and biblical references accompanied by an English translation by Samuel A. Hirsch. London 1905. Reprint. ISBN 9789060223116

Amsterdam, APA - PHILO Press, 1979. VIII, 130, 264 pp. Hebrew and English. NEW. Softbound. High-quality reprint. Middle Ages. Judaism. Bible ISBN: 9789060223116

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Boeknummer: 50137

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Berlin, Adele

Biblical Poetry Through Medieval Jewish Eyes [Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature]

Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1991. xi, 205 pp., Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket. ISBN: 9780253311764

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Boeknummer: 52722

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